Udit Narayan Jha
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Nepalese playback singer
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- India
- Active from
- 1955-12-01
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 305
- Total plays
- 1,500
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,745x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,036x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,393x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,151x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,814x
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Key facts
- Born
- Udit Narayan Jha , ( 1955-12-01 ) 1 December 1955 (age 70) , Baisi, Supaul district , Bihar , India
- Alma mater
- Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus , Tribhuvan University
- Occupation
- Playback singer
- Years active
- 1980–present
- Spouses
- Ranjana Jha ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 , separated ) Deepa Gahatraj ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 )
- Children
- Aditya Narayan
- Relatives
- Shweta Agarwal (daughter-in-law)
- Awards
- Full list
- Honours
- Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (2001) Padma Shri (2009) Padma Bhushan (2016)
- Genres
- Filmi pop Semi-Classical Bhajan folk
- Instrument
- Vocal
- Labels
- Yash Raj Films T-Series SKS Music Company Sony Music Sony BMG Tips Saregama Venus
- Channel
- @RealUditNarayan
- Genre
- Music
- Subscribers
- 3.5 million
- Views
- 3.3 billion
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Udit-Narayan-2019.jpg
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- Commons category
- Udit Narayan
- date of birth
- 1955-12-01
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- name in native language
- Udit Narayan
- social media followers
- 23394
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Article
Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955; pronunciation) is an Indian playback singer whose songs are featured in Indian cinema, primarily Hindi films.
He has won four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards, with twenty nominations among many others. He won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer three times for the songs Mitwa from Lagaan (2001), Jaane Kyon Log from Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Chhote Chhote Sapne Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai (2002) and Yeh Taara Woh Taara from Swades (2004). He also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bhojpuri in 2005 as the producer of Kab Hoi Gawna Hamar. He was awarded the Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2015. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution to arts and culture.